Export of Excel Data to Pastel Xpress

[Questor]

Hi There

My client has failed to embrace Quickbooks Online and wants to revert to Pastel run by her bookkeeper.

The company has only been trading since July, there are a few large sales invoices, bank transactions and no creditors to speak of.

Can I import all the transactions from Excel into Pastel or should I do it monthly?

Any help appreciated.

[Kevin Smith]

The time to create all the import files would probably outweigh the benefit. I would suggest re-capturing the invoices. Using the Bank Manager you can import you bank statements from inception and map the recurring entries, eliminating the manual capturing of the cashbook. Is there stock/inventory involved? If so, you need to capture period by period and update the transactions in sequence, to get the correct average cost at time of sale.

[Questor]

Thank you, Kevin.

No stock is involved and I take your point about the set-up time for the import files. As the volumes involved are small it makes sense just to import from bank statements and bolt on the other bits.